The Autism Spectrum in Higher Education: Conference Schedule for Wednesday, November 7, 2012
8:00 am – 8:45 am: Registration & Coffee
Registration Area
8:45 am – 9:00 am : Chancellor’s Welcome
W. Eric Grimson, Chancellor & Bernard Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering, MIT
Dining Room 5&6
9:00 am – 9:15 am: Opening Remarks
Kathleen Monagle, Associate Dean, Student Disabilities Services, MIT
Dining Room 5&6
9:15 am – 10:30 am: The Spectacular Spectrum: College Students and a New Way of Understanding
Jane Thierfeld Brown, Director, College Autism Spectrum; Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT
Dining Room 5&6
10:30 am – 10:45 am: Break
Marble Foyer
10:45 am – 11:40 am: Innovative Interventions
Bonni Alpert, Western New England University
Laurie Ackles, Rochester Institute of Technology
Dining Room 5&6
11:50 am – 1:00 pm: Lunch
Professor Nancy Kanwisher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language & Anatomical Structures
Professor Rebecca Saxe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dining Room 5&6
1:10 p.m. – 2:00 pm: Living & Learning Panel
Moderator: Mark Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jennifer Reittinger, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Nina Davis-Millis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harold Fields, Rochester Institute of Technology
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 pm: Break
Marble Foyer
2:15 p.m. – 3:05 pm: Research (concurrent sessions)
- Dining Room East: Micah Eckhardt, Affective Computing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
- Dining Room West: Professor Laurence Sugarman, RIT, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
3:15 p.m. – 4:05 pm: Student Voices
Moderator: Laurie Ackles, RIT
Dining Room 5&6
4:15 p.m. – 5:00 pm: Field Applications (concurrent sessions)
- Dining Room West: Innovative Technologies
Mark Bowers and Kelly Bowers, Sōsh - Dining Room East: Innovative Employment Strategies
Jean Morrell, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Consultant and Field Recruiter
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 pm: Reception
Dining Room 2
